Should I Intervene?? 1 chick shrink-wrapped, the other barely moving.

3toTeach

In the Brooder
Feb 27, 2019
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North Texas
We started with 6 chicken eggs in the incubator, and due to some early quitters had 4 remaining on hatch day. We're on day 25 and still no pips. I candled them in a very humid bathroom and only 1 has minimal movement. I then placed the two non-moving eggs into a bowl of warm water to check for viability and saw no visible movement. I did eggtopsies on the eggs. The first egg, the chick was underdeveloped, with no blood and had not absorbed the yolk. The second egg had been shrink-wrapped and was fully developed with only a small attachment towards the pointy-end of the egg. My question is this:

Should I intervene with the one egg I have left?

It is barely moving, day 25, and 1 of my eggs from the hatch has already revealed shrink-wrapping.
I've done a lot of research for my first hatch, and feel there are some conflicting point-of-views, but I do not want to lose my last chicken baby.

Thank you in advance for your help!!!
 
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At day 25 there is little hope, so this might sound bad, but you really don,t have much to loose. If you are successful do you have a plan? The chick will need Some friends

I've heard intervention is a last resort. I'm unsure if I'm at that last resort moment, or if I am being an overly-anxious first-time chicken mama.

We do have a warm brooder and had planned on picking up more chicks if only one bird survived the hatch. Our local store gets a new shipment of day-old chicks every Thursday.
 
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